Books aren't just what we do...

... they're who we are. We become the sum total of our reading experiences - the romance, the adventures, the coming-of-age, the fantasy, the dare-to-believe. At kt literary, we want to be more.

Madeleine L'Engle once said, "You have to write whichever book it is that wants to be written. And then, if it's going to be too difficult for grown-ups, you write it for children." Write for children. Write for adults. Write for yourself. And then, when you're ready to find a literary agent to take your work to the next level, think of us.

kt literary is a full-service literary agency operating out of Highlands Ranch, in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, where every major publishing house is merely a phone call away. We believe in the power of new technology to connect writers to readers, and authors to editors. We bring over a decade of experience in the New York publishing scene, an extensive list of contacts, and a lifetime love of reading to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

And did we mention our boundless optimism?

kt literary client Maureen Johnson, author of 13 LITTLE BLUE ENVELOPES and SUITE SCARLETT, says, "Kate's high level of organization makes Martha Stewart look like an amateur and a punk. She stays three steps ahead, so I can concentrate on my writing. It's an act of madness for me to encourage new clients. I don't want to share her!" (reference: maureen@maureenjohnsonbooks.com)

Maureen Johnson, Josie Bloss, Ellen Booraem, Matthew Cody, S. Terrell French, and Lili Wilkinson.

SUITE SCARLETT by Maureen Johnson, BAND GEEK LOVE by Josie Bloss, THE UNNAMEABLES by Ellen Booraem, OPERATION REDWOOD by S. Terrell French

Please see my Dealmaker page for my latest sales.

Julia Karr's XVI, a near-future thriller in which a 15-year-old uncovers the mystery surrounding her mother's death and her missing father, while dreading the coming of her sixteenth birthday and the government-mandated tattoo that references her sexual status, to Jennifer Bonnell at Penguin Children's, in a nice deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in Spring 2011, by Kate Schafer Testerman at kt literary (World English).

Stephanie Perkins's ANNA AND THE BOY MASTERPIECE, in which American Anna Oliphant spends a year in a Parisian boarding school and falls for her multi-national classmate, plus a companion novel, LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR, to Julie Strauss-Gabel at Dutton Children's, in a very nice deal, at auction, for publication in Fall 2010, by Kate Schafer Testerman at kt literary (World English).

Kiki Hamilton's THE FAERIE RING, an urban fantasy set in Victorian London, in which a streetwise pickpocket steals a ring from Buckingham Palace, then has to try to return it in order to keep a peace treaty between the British and Faerie courts, to Susan Chang at Tor, in a nice deal, by Kate Schafer Testerman at kt literary (World English).

Please see my Dealmaker page for my latest sales.

Italian rights to Matthew Cody's debut novel POWERLESS (Knopf, November 2009) to Mondadori.

Rights to Alyson Noel's EVERMORE and BLUE MOON sold in 22 territories, including Bulgarian, Chinese (both simplified and complex characters), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, and British.

10 years of experience at Janklow & Nesbit Associates
Two years working in children's and adult foreign and domestic rights at Houghton Mifflin Co.

China and Taiwan
Bardon-Chinese Media Agency
3F,No. 150 Roosevelt Road, Sec. 2,
Taipei,Taiwan 100
tel: +886 2 2364 4995
fax: +886 2 2364 1967
www.bardonchinese.com
joanne@bardon.com.tw

Eastern Europe
Prava I Prevodi
Yu-Business Centre
Blvd. Mihaila Pupina 10B/I
5th Floor, Suite 4
11070 Belgrade
SERBIA
tel: +381 11 301 6141
fax: +381 11 311 9879
ana@pravaiprevodi.org

France
Agence Eliane Benisti
80, rue des Saints-Peres
75007 Paris
tel: +33 1 4222 8533
fax: +33 1 4544 1817
noemie@elianebenisti.com

Germany
Thomas Schlueck GmbH
Hinter der Worth 12
D-30827 Garbsen
tel:+49 5131 4975 68
fax:+49 5131 4975 868
www.schlueckagent.com
b.schlueck@schlueckagent.com

Greece
Prava I Prevodi
Yu-Business Centre
Blvd. Mihaila Pupina 10B/I
5th Floor, Suite 4
11070 Belgrade
SERBIA
tel: +381 11 301 6141
fax: +381 11 311 9879
ana@pravaiprevodi.org

Israel
I. Pikarski Ltd. Literary Agency
200 Hayarkon Street
63406 Tel Aviv
tel:+972 3 5270159
fax:+972 3 5270160
dalia@pikarskiagency.co.il

Italy
Gabriella Ambrosioni S.r.l. Literary Agency
via San Giorgio, 1
40121 Bologna
tel:+39 051 2961 096
fax:+39 051 2914 000
www.gabriellaambrosioni.com
gabriella@gabriellaambrosioni.com

Korea
Imprima Korea Agency
3F Mijin Bldg.
464-41 Seokyo-dong, Mapo-gu
Seoul 121-841
tel: +82 2 325 9155
fax: +82 2 334 9160
www.imprima.co.kr
jenniferahn@imprima.co.kr

Kate Schafer Testerman, Founder and Agent
kate@ktliterary.com

To submit to kt literary, please email us at queries@ktliterary.com. Queries should not contain attachments; if you'd like to include two or three pages of your manuscript (at the most), please do so within the body of the email. Attachments will not be read. We aim to reply to all queries within two weeks of receipt. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.ktliterary.com/submissions.html